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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
- 600. Randia uliginosa, De. h.f.b.i., hi. 110. 
Syn. : — Posoqueria Uliginosa, Roxb. 239. 
Vern. : — Pendari (Bomb.) ; Pindalu, panar, paniah, katul, 
pindar, bharani (H.) ; PiralotB.); Panelra, cindra, telp-hetru, 
phetra, (Mar); Wagata (Tam.); Nalaika, devatamallq, nalla- 
kakasi, guaku (Tel.) ; Kare, pendri, pandri (Kan). 
Habitat : — Eastern, Central and Southern India ; not common 
northwards, Sikkim and Assam. 
A small, armed, rigid, glabrous, deciduous tree. Bark iin. 
thick, reddish-brown, exfoliating in thin flakes. Wood whitish- 
grey close-grained, hard ; no heartwood. Branches quadran- 
gular, usually bearing short, terete, decussate branchlets, with 
several pair of approximate leaves and above them 2-4 strong, 
straight, sharp, decussate thorns. Leaves glabrous and shining 
above, often pubescent beneath, obovate from a cuneate base ; 
blade 3-6in. long ; petiole iin. long. Stipules triangular. 
Flowers solitary, white, dimorphic, either large and sessile, or 
small and petioled, scented. The large and sessile flowers 
often have Corolla 2in. diam., 2 separate stigmas, and the 
tube longer than the free portion of the Calyx. The small 
pedicillate flowers have a short Corolla-tube and a clavate 
stigma marked with spiral lines. Calyx-lobes short. Corolla- 
tube glabrous outside. Fruit, when ripe, yellow, edible, with 
a hard pulp, those produced by the large sessile flowers are 
ellipsoid, 2in. long, while those of the smaller peduncled flowers 
are of half that size. Seeds compressed, smooth, closely packed 
in pulp. 
Uses The unripe fruit roasted in wood ashes is used as a 
remedy in diarrhoea and dysentery, the central portion consisting 
of the stone and seeds being rejected ; it is astringent (Pymock). 
The root, boiled in ghi, is sometimes given in similar cases. 
601. R. dumetorum, Lamk. H.F.B.I., in. 110. 
Syn. Posoqueria dumetorum, P. nutans, P. longispina and 
P. floribunda, Roxb. 239-241. 
Sans. : — Madana. 
